For sex offenders who completed their sentences, 'the only way out appears to be to die'

Until a public outcry forced the state to move them, a group of high-risk sex offenders was being housed in a home in the 9300 block of W. Montgomery Road in the Acres Homes neighborhood of north Houston.

Until a public outcry forced the state to move them, a group of...

AUSTIN - As criminals go, these few hundred men officially are labeled the worst of the worst, offenders whose past sexual crimes have branded them as such pariahs that the state has decided to keep them confined in jails and halfway houses and run-down boarding homes across Texas at taxpayer expense, even though they long ago completed their prison sentences.

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